Hi, I'm all about saving the planet and saving our trees, but currently reading documentation on-screen (no matter how hard I try), is just not as comfortable as reading from a book. I don't have these $350+ eBook readers, so I can't comment on them with there e-Ink technology screens. Does any of you use a eBook (external) reader for FPC or other PDF ebooks? How comfortable do you find those screens and the device itself?
I'm going to print the FPC documentation and bind them myself. Binding your own books is actually very easy - I'll add a wiki page with instructions for other FPC users. My problem is the RTL document. It is HUGE! Last time I checked, it was just under 1600 pages. * Is it worth printing this document? Or does it make more sense to only print the language and compiler guides? * Has anybody else printed the RTL document? If so, how did you bind it? No printer here wants to bind such a huge book. * Is there a way to create 2 or 3 volumes out of the RTL document? Printing it all out and simply binding it as 3 books by dividing the pages doesn't look like it will work well. Because only the first volume will have an Contents Table and only the last volume will have an index. Can this document be split in a more "professional" way into 3 volumes? How did anybody else do this? * Paper Size. Strangely enough the default page size in the USA is US Letter, in the EU and Afriac it's A4. But what is really funny, is that I do not own a single book that is printed in Letter or A4 page size! Instead the books seem to all be slightly shorter in height and width - what's up with this in the publishing world?? Why do we have standard page sizes if no publisher uses it. Anyway, so is A4 the best choice for our documentation? I really don't mind it being A4, because it is a lot more convenient because I always have A4 pager around. Also printing in booklet form which reduces books to A5 size is very convenient as well. I just thought I would mention my observation. :-) If anybody else printed the FPC documentation could you comment on your experience. Did you use A4 or A5 size, what about the RTL documentation etc.. By the way, I have tried a 400 page eBook once with those plastic ring-binding things with all the rectangular holes down the spine. It did not work very well and is hard to page through the book. So "perfect binding" with a paperback cover seems to be the best solution. Hardback might be even better, but I haven't tried to do hardback cover binding myself yet. Regards, - Graeme - -- fpGUI Toolkit - a cross-platform GUI toolkit using Free Pascal http://opensoft.homeip.net/fpgui/ _______________________________________________ fpc-pascal maillist - fpc-pascal@lists.freepascal.org http://lists.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/fpc-pascal
